Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Quotes

#1. We in middle age require adventure.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#2. Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#3. No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.

Rand Paul

#4. The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Anna Garlin Spencer

#5. Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#6. Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#7. Any medium can only live up to the strengths of the people working in it. If it's been used to tell bad or boring stories, it's not a problem with comics; it's a problem with the writers of those comics.

Marjane Satrapi

#8. Behold I give unto you power to tread on serpents ... and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Luke 10:19

Paulo Coelho

#9. The journey is over. Love to all.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#10. Much of what is taught in our schools and colleges today seeks to break down traditional values, and replace them with more fancy and fashionable notions, of which "a duty to die" is just one.

Thomas Sowell

#11. We want to discover who we are without the burden of sight. It's easy to believe we are the same inside because we look so similar. Sanna says only in the dark can we know the truth, but I'm not so sure. Darkness conceals.

Sara Grant

#12. Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#13. To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#14. An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#16. In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine.

Geoff Hoon

#17. You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#18. Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#19. The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand.

William Steig

#20. The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#21. The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#22. Possibilities lies in a daring dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun